The World Economic Forum (WEF) took place this week in Davos, Switzerland, the annual event bringing politicians and business leaders together. This year, the theme was ‘Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World’, which saw discussions around free trade, human rights, technology, and the environment. It included discussions around a number of key environmental […]

Rivers in England are running dry and wildlife is suffering, but no one has come close to mentioning a drought. What’s going on? Is this a footpath meandering under an old bridge? I’m afraid not. It’s actually a river – the River Quin in Hertfordshire in spring this year. And plenty of other rivers have […]

Lake Kenyatta is one of the largest freshwater bodies in Lamu County, on the north Kenyan coast. It supplies water to an estimated 60,000 people as well as being a critical water source for wildlife and livestock. But the lake is under threat, and those threats are growing. When visiting Lake Kenyatta you can’t miss […]

People living around the Boni forest in Kenya have been adapting to a changing environment for years. But this is different. The magnitude and rate of change in the local climate is now so great, that many of the traditional coping strategies are ineffective or unsustainable. It’s leading to damage to the environment and food […]

Water meters get a bad press, often being blamed for rises in costs and a way for water companies to extract more money from the hard pressed consumer. I see it from another side- water meters mean a household pays for what it uses, not what other people assume it uses. More often than not, […]

Water. It falls from clouds, it collects in rivers and lakes, we use it, it gets taken away, cleaned up and put back into rivers to go to into the sea, evaporates, joins with dust to form clouds, then the process starts again. (Broadly speaking.) So what is the problem and why is WWF concerned […]

Last week I was in the running to be interviewed live on Sky News (in HD no less). This was because of a Energy Saving Trust report arguing UK households waste energy and water on things like long showers and repeatedly boiling overfilled kettles. Sky had come to us to comment on the impact of […]

The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest desert in North America and home to millions of people and species found nowhere else in the world. Neither people nor wildlife in the desert could live without the rivers that flow through it – the Rio Conchos and the Rio Grande. But these once mighty rivers are under […]

The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest desert in North America and home to millions of people and species. Neither people nor wildlife in the desert could live without the rivers that flow through it – the Rio Conchos and the Rio Grande. I travelled to the region in late 2011 to work with my Mexican […]

The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest desert in North America and home to millions of people and species. Neither people nor wildlife in the desert could live without the rivers that flow through it – the Rio Conchos and the Rio Grande. I travelled to the region in late 2011 to work with my Mexican […]